When Zaher Jabarin ran a Hamas cell in the 1980s, he borrowed cash from his mother to buy weapons. Now, he oversees a financial empire that the U.S. estimates is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and funds Hamas’s operations against Israel. Read more: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN…...

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, appears to be ramping up work in fields well beyond the bounds of social media: Biology, chemistry, natural sciences and pharmaceuticals. The Beijing-based tech giant is recruiting American talent in computational biology, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and physics for its “AI for…...

An explosion in a Beirut suburb killed Saleh Arouri, a senior Hamas official, the group said. A U.S. defense official said the Israel Defense Forces was responsible for a strike targeting Arouri, and that an assessment of whether he had been killed was ongoing. Hamas said Israel had carried…...

The “Steamboat Willie” version of Mickey Mouse, and thousands of other copyrighted works published in 1928, entered the public domain on Jan. 1. Now those characters and stories can be remade — on the page, stage or screen — without permission. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN…...

North Korea will no longer seek reconciliation and reunification with South Korea, Kim Jong Un has declared, as his nation vowed to put three new military spy satellites into orbit in 2024. Kim said inter-Korean relations had become "a relationship between two hostile countries and two belligerents at...

STRASBOURG, France — From the top floor of the house he shares here with a senior Russian diplomat — to whom he rents the apartment below — the man who helped bankroll the French presidential bid of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has been working on plans to propel pro-Moscow politicians…...